Description: This is a photograph of a map of the Underground Railroad in Ohio, showing the stations where fugitive slaves were assisted in their flight. The map was created by the Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in 1936. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_044
Subjects: Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration; Maps; Underground Railroad
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows a butcher demonstrating cutting steak to a young boy. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_040_01
Subjects: Butchering; Butchers; Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration; Meat industry; African American Ohioans
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph shows women using a mangle iron. It is a part of the Ohio Writers' Program of the work Projects Administration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_041_01
Subjects: Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration; Ironing
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "High School. Mt. Pleasant, O. Miller and Sons 436 Market St. Steubenville, Ohio." The village of Mount Pleasant is located about 20 miles southwest of Steubenville, Ohio. Most of the village has been designated a National Historic Landmark. More information is needed as to the status of this building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_035_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Jefferson County (Ohio)--History; National Historic Landmarks Program (U.S.); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Flippo, the King of Clowns, played by comic and musician Bob Marvin, is shaking hands with another children's television personality, Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan). Flippo was a well-known television personality in the Columbus, Ohio, area. Between 1952 and 1977 he starred in "Tip Top Bandwagon," "Flippo's Big Show," and "The Early Show" on WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliate station in Columbus. "Bob Marvin" was the professional name of Marvin W. Fishman (1927-2006), who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and began his show-business career as a musician. He started at WBNS in 1950, singing and performing in sketches on the "Homemaker's Hobnob" morning show. Two years later he began his tenure as Flippo, King of the Clowns. He remained at WBNS for 27 years and then spent his last years in television at an early cable-television service, Qube. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06282
Subjects: Clowns; Television personalities; WBNS-TV (Television station : Columbus, Ohio); Television programs for children; Captain Kangaroo (Television program); Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture
 

Description: This photograph shows the front of the William Holmes McGuffey House, located in Oxford, Ohio. William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873) was a Miami University faculty member in 1836 when he compiled the first edition of the McGuffey Eclectic Reader in this house. His Reader taught lessons in reading, spelling, and civic education by using memorable stories of honesty, hard work, thrift, personal respect, and moral and ethical standards alongside illustrative selections from literary works. The six-edition series increased in difficulty and was developed with the help of his brother Alexander Hamilton McGuffey. After the Civil War the Readers were the basic schoolbooks in thirty-seven states. By 1920 an estimated 122 million copies had been sold, reshaping American public school curriculum and becoming one of the nation's most influential publications. McGuffey built this brick home in 1833. In 1958, Miami University purchased it from the Wallace P. Roudebush family, and it was endowed by Emma Gould Blocker to serve as a museum of University history in honor of McGuffey's legacy. The museum opened to the public in 1960, and the house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. This image of the McGuffey House was among the photographs produced by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1935 and 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06390
Subjects: McGuffey, William Holmes, 1800-1873; Architecture--Ohio; Oxford (Ohio); McGuffey readers; United States. Work Progress Administration; National Historic Landmarks Program (U.S.)
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Cin. Observatory" Cincinnati Observatory is a Greek Revival style building designed by Sammuel Hannaford, and was built atop [Mount Adams/Mount Ida, Ohio], a hill that overlooks downtown Cincinnati. The cornerstone was laid on November 9, 1843, and presiding over the occasion was former President John Quincy Adams. At 77 years old, it was to be his last public speech, and Mount Ida was renamed to Mount Adams in his honor. It consists of two observatory buildings housing an 11 inch and 16 inch refracting telescope. It is the oldest professional observatory in the United States. In 1871, the Observatory came under the control of the University of Cincinnati and in 1873 it was moved from Mt. Adams to Mt. Lookout, where it remains today. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and in 1998 the Observatory became a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F14_009_1
Subjects: Cincinnati Observatory (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio). Mount Adams; National Register of Historic Places; National Historic Landmark Program (U.S.)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Langley's Inn, built as an Indian trading post in 1828. Still stands in an excellent state of preservation on River Road at E. Wayne St. in Maumee, Ohio." The oldest business building in Lucas County, Ohio, the Commercial Building at 301 River Road has been known by different names over the years, including the Neeley House, the Eagle, the Schieley House, the Bismark, the Seurin Hotel, the Langley Inn, the Governor’s Inn, J. Brown’s River Inn, and the Old Plantation Inn. In 1836, Levi Beebe built the Commercial Building. Initially, several different businesses occupied the structure, including various law firms, several stores, and even the local post office. The building also housed an inn at this time. Several prominent people purportedly stayed at the inn, including future presidents Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes. Businesses in the Commercial Building flourished during the 1830s and 1840s. The structure was located on the stagecoach route between Detroit, Michigan and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Also, Maumee is located on the Maumee River, and river traffic brought business and guests to the area. Maumee also was the original county seat of Lucas County, bringing people to the community who were engaged in legal matters or in politics. In 1837, the Lucas County Whig Party actually formed in the Commercial Building. In 1852, the Lucas County seat moved to Toledo. The Maumee economy weakened at this time, but the Commercial Building continued to house various businesses. Purportedly, the structure served as a stop on the Underground Railroad in the years before the American Civil War. During the twentieth century, the building principally functioned as an inn and restaurant. As of this writing, the Commercial Building houses Giannos Restaurant. The Commercial Building is on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F02_012_1
Subjects: National Historic Landmark Program (U.S.); Historic sites--Maumee River Valley (Ind. and Ohio)--Pictorial works; Lucas County (Ohio)--History.
Places: Maumee (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "John H. Twachman, old Holly House" Titled "Old Holley House, Cos Cob" is a painting by John Henry Twachtman, completed in 1901. It measures 25 3/16 inches by 25 3/16 inches. It is at the Cincinnati Art Museum courtesy of the John J. Emery Fund. The home, built in 1792, was owned by Josephine and Edward Holley and overlooked a small harbor in the Cos Cob area of Greenwich, Connecticut, and is one of the oldest buildings in Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and made a National Historic Landmark in 1991. It was a boarding house from 1890 to 1920 and was a gathering place for artists and writers, and is now a gallery and museum. John Henry Twachtwman, 1853 - 1902, taught classes at Holley House for a time, beginning around 1891. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F07_030_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Twachtman, John Henry, 1853-1902; National Historic Landmark Program (U.S.); National Register of Historic Places;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption on reverse reads: "Old Taft Home. Mt. Auburn. Taft Birth Place. Cincinnati, Ohio." This building is located at 2038 Auburn Ave., in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati. The 27th President and 10th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Howard Taft was born here September 15, 1857, and lived here until he left for Yale University in 1874. The 2-story Greek Revival house is believed to have been built by the Bowen family around 1835. William's parents, Alphonso and Louise Taft bought the house in 1851. The second floor and roof were damaged by fire in 1878. In 1889 the elder Tafts moved to California and decided to lease the house. Alphonso died in 1891, and the tenants allowed mourners to gather at the house. Louise eventually sold the house in 1899 to Albert C. Thompson, United States judge for the Southern District of Ohio, and moved to Massachusetts. About five years later, around 1904, the front veranda was removed, and several of the outbuildings demolished. The tower on the right, in the photograph, was probably also removed at this time. The home underwent several changes of ownership for the next few decades, and by the 1940s, the new owner Elbert R. Bellinger had decided to convert the building into apartments. The William Howard Taft Memorial foundation, organized in 1937, was eventually able to buy the property for the assessment price of $35,000 sometime after 1953. By 1961, the home was desperately in need of restoration, which would cost $92,500. The house was declared a National Landmark in 1964, with a dedication ceremony taking place September 15 of that year, 107 years after William's birth. It was added National Register of Historic Places on in 1966 and was transferred it to the National Park Service in 1968. The United State government obtained the property in 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F13_007_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930; Taft, Alphonso, 1810-1891; National Register of Historic Places; National Historic Landmark Program
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a striking worker holding a copy of the Columbus Dispatch. It was in the month of May, but the date is unreadable. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_019
Subjects: Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "People at work." These people were taking a break. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_021_01
Subjects: Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration
Places: Ohio